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This past week my wife revived an old idea that rewarded us for eating better. We already made a lifestyle change in our eating habits for over a year, but lately have been backsliding. So we are trying a new system that rewards ourselves for eating well through out the week. Basically, every meal or snack we eat during the day is a normal portion between 300-400 calories. This keeps us consuming less than 2000 calories a day. On top of that we drink 8-10 glasses of water daily. This is no problem for us because we now have conditioned ourselves to do this for the last 2 years. We used little bottled waters that helps us easily gauge what we are consuming.  At the end of the week, we treat ourselves to a nice meal.

Today is the big payoff. We ordered 2 nice lunches from Lucille’s BBQ Smokehouse. We have eaten here many times a long time ago. This time we had take out. And of course, this blog is all about sharing the experience. I took photos of our food for you to check out below.

Our order consisted of:

Lucille’s BBQ Tri Tip Sandwich-Our slow smoked, Certified Angus Beef tri tip , thinly shaved, tossed in our mop sauce and piled way high on a soft potato bun. Our most popular sandwich! We also had 2 sides with this meal consisting of BBQ Baked Beans and Potato Salad.

We shared both meals, so I tasted everything. I liked both sandwiches very much. I liked all the sides. I think our new idea is a good reward system for our behavior and will promote our preferred lifestyle eating. We were only able to eat less than half of the food and we will consume the rest either as tonight’s dinner or tomorrow’s lunch. YUMMY!!